§ Mr. Edwin Wainwrightasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what are the average numbers of medical and dental staff per 100,000 of the population in the Trent Regional Health Authority areas over each of the past four years; and what are the comparative figures for the other regional health authorities.
§ Mr. Roland MoyleThe table below gives whole-time equivalents per 100,000 population of hospital medical and dental staff. The figures include doctors and dentists holding hospital practitioner appointments or appointments under paragraphs 94 and 107 of the Terms and Conditions of Service of Hospital Medical and Dental Staff, and medical staff employed at mass radiography units and blood transfusion centres. They do not include staff employed in community health services—for whom comparable information is not available in all the 103W stated years—or general practitioners other than those who also hold hospital appointments.
1973 1974 1975 1976 England 58.4 60.2 63.4 65.3 Northern 56.9 56.1 61.3 62.3 Yorkshire 52.3 53.8 56.5 59.7 Trent 43.4 44.4 46.3 50.2 East Anglian 47.3 50.9 56.6 58.1 NW Thames 73.1 75.6 79.3 81.2 NE Thames SE Thames SW Thames Boards of Governors Wessex 48.7 53.9 54.9 56.4 Oxford 58.2 58.7 60.8 626 South Western 52.4 53.4 550 570 West Midlands 51.4 53.9 57.6 57.8 Mersey 60.1 58.3 61.0 62.1 North Western 53.6 57.9 62.5 65.0 NOTE: Regions are shown according to their titles after reorganisation; because of reorganisation figures for 1973 are not strictly comparable with those for later years.